Alchemical articles archive project

Over the past five years the Alchemy research library has
grown considerably and now amounts to over 1850 books and articles
in various languages. Due to the generosity of many authors, publishers and fellow
researchers, this library has become a substantial collection of modern,
i.e. 20th century works, complementing the two important collections
of early alchemical books, the Ferguson and Young collections, here in
Glasgow. I also have made a considerable collection of iconography
from printed books and manuscripts on alchemy.
All this material constitutes a resource for scholars and others interested
in researching the literature of alchemy, brought together into one place,
Glasgow. You can see the most recent update of the alchemy research
library at reslib.html
I have begun to systematically collect photocopies of scholarly
articles in journals. At present I have over 750 items and now
need people in other countries with access to good libraries to
make photocopies of articles for this collection. Anyone with
ready access to a major library with good collections of journals
who is willing to help with this project please get in touch with me
directly and I will try to sort out what needs to be done. Although
I have access to many of the journals
here in Glasgow there are many that will only be available
in the USA or in Germany, France, or other continental European
countries. If you are willing and able to help please get in touch. e-mail - Adam McLean

This is a listing of the 750+ articles in the archive on 28th June 2004.

ARTICLE - Browne, C.A. The poem of the philosopher Theophrastos upon the sacred art: A metrical translation with comments upon the history of alchemy. The Scientific Monthly, 1920, Vol 10/11, p193-214.

ARTICLE - Dickson, Donald R. Thomas Henshaw and Sir Robert Paston's pursuit of the Red elixir: An early collaboration between fellows of the Royal Society. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 51 (1), 1997, p57-76.

ARTICLE - Faivre, Antoine. Questions of Terminology proper to the Study of Esoetric Currents in Modern and Contemporary Europe. In Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion. Selected Papers presented at the 17th Congress of the International Association for thre History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995. Peeters, Leuven, 1998.

ARTICLE - Feisenberger, H.A. The libraries of Newton, Hooke and Boyle. In Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1966, p42-55.

ARTICLE - Fueck, J. W. The Arabic literature on alchemy according to An-Nadim (A.D. 987): a translation of the tenth discourse of 'The book of the catalogue' (Al-Fihrist). Ambix 4 (3-4) Feb 1951, p81-144.

ARTICLE - Gruman, Gerald J. A history of ideas about the prolongation of life. The evolution of prolongevity hypotheses to 1800. The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Volume 56, Part 9, 1966.

ARTICLE - Guerlac, Henry. John Mayow and the Aerial Nitre. The Poet's Nitre. In Essays and papers in thehistory of modern science. p245-274

ARTICLE - Guerlac, Henry. Guy de La Brosse and the French Paracelsians. In Science, Medicine and Society in the Renaissance, edited by Allen G. Debus. Vol 1, p177-199.

ARTICLE - Hillman, James. The Yellowing of the Work. In - Personal and Archetypal Dynamics in the Analytical Relationship. Proceeedings of the Eleventh International Congress For Analytical Psychology, Paris, 1989. Daimon Verlag.

ARTICLE - Hubicki, Wlodzimierz. Michael Sendivogius's theory, its origin and significance in the history of chemistry. In Ithaca Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of History of Science, Paris, 1964. II, p829-833.

ARTICLE - Lazarev, E. [In Russian]. The Mystery of Dragon. Science and Religion, No 10, 1992, p55. [Russian translation of ancient manuscript from Alexandria about Ouroborus plus short commentary. The text is based on Berthelot's version published in his 'Collection des ancient alchimistes grecs'.]

ARTICLE - Lazarev, E. [In Russian]. The Key to Mysteries of Atlantida? Science and Religion, No. 4, 1991, p 53-55. [Commentaries and afterword to 'Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz' published in the same magazine in isuues 2 and 4. Suggested explanation of the symbolism of numbers in the 'Chemical Wedding'. ]

ARTICLE - Pagel, Walter. The spectre of van Helmont and the idea of continuity in the history of chemistry. In Teich, M. and Young R., Changing perspectives in the history of science, London, 1972, p100-109.

ARTICLE - Purcell, Melanie. What are the relationships between infinity and zero? The implications of a cyclic universe and the diagonally woven single jointed thread Klein bottle. Department of Philosophy, Newcastle University, Australia.

ARTICLE - Versluis, Arthur. Alchemy and Christian theosophic literature. Selected Papers presented at the 17th Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995. Peeters, Leuven, 1998.

ARTICLE - Voss, Karen-Claire. The Hierosgamos Theme in the Images of the Rosarium Philosophorum. In Alchemy Revisited: Proceedings of the International Conference on the History of Alchemy at the University of Groningen, 17-19 April 1989, ed. by Z.R.W.M. von Martels. E.J. Brill: Leiden, 1990.

ARTICLE - Voss, Karen-Claire. Spiritual Alchemy: Interpreting Representative Texts and Images. Presented to the Amsterdam Summer University: "Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times." August 15-August 19, 1994. This is a slightly revised and augmented version of what appeared in Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times, ed. by R. van den Broek and W.J. Hanegraaff. State University of New York Press: New York, 1998.

ARTICLE - Voss, Karen-Claire. A Response to Dan Merkurs "Methodology and the Study of Western Spiritual Alchemy". Theosophical History VIII No. 9, July 2002.

ARTICLE - Voss, Karen-Claire. The Tabula Smaragdina Revisited. A paper presented at Inscriptions in the Sand, an Arts and Culture Conference and Festival. The Sixth International Literature and Humanities Conference at Eastern Mediterranean Uuniversity, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus, June 4-6, 2003.